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Recipe for the famous ‘Sauce Chien’

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The ‘Sauce Chien’ (Dog Sauce) is used in French West Indian cooking to add flavour to your dishes, particularly those using fish. There are various ways to prepare this sauce, depending on taste, some like it spicier than others for example. Simply modify the recipe to suit your taste but replicating the overall French West Indian recipe as much as possible.Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutesINGREDIENTS:
1 large onion
3 spring onions (or chives)
2 branches of parsley
2 cloves of garlic
1 tomato
1 lime
1 West Indian pimento
Olive oil
Salt, pepper
WaterTHE RECIPE
Mix the ingredients in a salad bowl as follows: Grate the onion and the zest of half a lemon, finely chop the spring onion, the parsley, and the garlic cloves. Tear the fresh thyme into small pieces.
Remove the seeds of the tomato and the pimento and dice them both.
Add 3 table spoons of olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
Boil 50cl of water and sprinkle into the mixture. Finally add the juice of half a lemon and add extra seasoning to taste. Cover and leave to macerate until serving.Enjoy at will with fish, lobster, chicken, grilled food…. It’s delicious !!






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after reading this I assume lemon should be in the ingredients instead of lime
 
Sauce chien (one recipe) - seems the name has something to do with the ingredients being chopped up using a couteau-chien (dog-knife) - " a legendary object in the West Indies... born from a meeting in the old days between a cutler of Thiers and cooks of Guadeloupe... a wedding gift par excellence"...

Maya gave us her recipe for "Sauce Chien" a few years ago and we served it with mahi-mahi (durade) at a "villa themed" dinner party. The side was baked christophine, derived from a partial recipe pried from Benjamin at Langouste. The following visit, asked around the island for a couteaux chien, but nobody had heard of it. Found the company website, https://www.thiers-issard.fr/fr/44-couteaux-chien-, but so far no retailers. Maybe a trip Guadaloupe or Martinique is needed. Any thoughts?
 
Memories..my favorite Chrisophine was served in Gustavia at Au Port-across from the current post office. The duck was darn good too. Sorry to hijack the thread-I just had a nostalgic flashback
 
The sauce Chien looks a lot like the sauce that Tom Beach used to serve with their Branzino, which I very much miss!
 
Note, both Creperie and Isoletta are on the same side of the road...a block apart on the left as you head out of town.

And that explains why the picture in my head is confused with both L'Isoletta and a construction site in the same place, LOL.
 
Maya gave us her recipe for "Sauce Chien" a few years ago... The following visit, asked around the island for a couteaux chien, but nobody had heard of it. Found the company website, https://www.thiers-issard.fr/fr/44-couteaux-chien-, but so far no retailers. Maybe a trip Guadaloupe or Martinique is needed. Any thoughts?


Alternative explanations of the name from The Barbecue Bible by Steven Rachlen were posted here in 2012:
Sauce chien (literally, "dog sauce") is a sort of high-voltage vinaigrette served throughout the French West Indies. How did it get its odd name? One theory holds that the "dog" refers to the fierce bite of the chiles. Another refers to the fact that this is a humble sauce, made without the egg yolks, butter, or cream found in more "noble" French sauces. Whatever its origins, sauce chien is an indispensable accompaniment to grilled seafood, chicken, and vegetables throughout the French West Indies.

Regarding retailers, I also do not see any US retailers offering the dog logo knife and the article that I linked states "80.000 exemplaires sont fabriqués chaque année exclusivement pour les Antilles françaises" (80000 are made annually, exclusively for the French Antilles). So unless you want to deal with all that online purchase/importing from this French site may entail, a Guadalupe or Martinique trip may be needed...
 




[FONT=&quot][h=1]The true origins of the ‘Dog Knife’[/h]






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[h=2]The true origins of the ‘Dog Knife’[/h]timalmax Blogs, Did you know ? 0 comments
It is THE legendary knife of the French West Indies, for over 100 years!
Relatively unknown in Europe, the ‘Couteau Chien’ (or Dog Knife) is extremely popular in the West Indies.
The ‘dog knife’ takes its name from the small animal engraved on the blade.
Cooks from long ago (‘antan lontan’ in Creole; in olden times…) completed most culinary preparations using a quality steel knife. At the top of the blade near the handle, the manufacturer’s symbol, a watchdog (‘chien’), was stamped into it.
It was originally created by Sabatier Frère et Fils but then acquired by France Exportation, an old cutlery maker dating back to 1793. Thiers Issard continued its manufacture until 1980 when France Exportation closed. Since then this brand has been owned by Thiers Issard and is still entirely made in Thiers by Thiers-Issard, in mainland France.
This legendary knife came into being in 1880 and is highly prized in the French West Indies where it is said that every family should have this knife.
The Dog Knife is the ‘wedding knife’. It is very important to offer this symbolic knife as a gift for a wedding as it is used a lot in the kitchen for cutting herbs or eating.
There is even a local sauce that takes its name from this knife, the ‘Sauce Chien’. The herbs used in this sauce (spring onions, garlic and parsley) are prepared using this type of knife.
It was generally made with a metal handle but this was changed for convenience to a more modern material.
The most popular model sold nowadays is that with a black nylon handle that can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
So, everyone to their knives, let’s do some cooking!


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Recipe for the famous ‘Sauce Chien’








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